suicide pill

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suicide pill - a poison pill with potentially catastrophic implications for the company it is intended to protect

poison pill - the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer

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Both swallowed maps instead of a suicide pill, and both were captured alive.

Ballots and blood

He was also criticised for not using an optional CIA-issued "suicide pill" - a coin with shellfish toxin embedded in its grooves - to kill himself.

U-2 SPY PLANE CRISIS; SOVIET UNION PARADED CAPTURED PILOT AFTER SHOOTING DOWN PLANE AT HEIGHT OF COLD WAR

Friends and family are killed or captured as they trek through a fallen city and Katniss has a suicide pill in case she is captured.

Hunger for endgame; Excellent J-Law brings solid sci-fi series to timely close

Masses and business community will never subscribe to the idea of taking a suicide pill under the guise of a bitter pill based on the ill will of the IMF as nobody win in the current set of policies except the lender.

Solution of economic crises lies in expansionary policy: says President FPCCI

Washington, June 30 ( ANI ): The United States police is investigating whether a man, who collapsed in court and died after being convicted for burning down his mansion, may have taken a suicide pill.

US man 'commits suicide' in court after being jailed for burning down $3.5mln mansion

There are times when I think those bright young things who come up with these brilliant schemes would prefer the older generation to form an orderly line and swallow a suicide pill.

Think tank are a waste of space

Why don't we just give everyone a suicide pill and then leave a note for any animals left: "Sorry for the mess we left the plant in.

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Swallowing the suicide pill was the merciful option - otherwise they were ordered to hold out under torture for at least 48 hours, to give their undercover contacts time to flee.

MY SECRET LIFE IN CHURCHILL'S SPY SCHOOL; To friends and family Noreen Baxter was a young wartime secretary but in reality, she was part of an elite group who used honeytraps, convicted criminals and advanced gadgets to train agents who would cause havoc behind the Nazi lines

As an option for those people sentenced to natural life, we should have a suicide pill they could choose to use.

Letter: Your Say - Not bitter pill

'If the Brent Tories and Brent New Labour have only one suicide pill between them, I suggest they do the decent thing and toss it to Iain Duncan Smith'

Transport row is going off the rails

Democrats 66, the party of Health Minister Els Borst who guided the Bill through parliament, says the next government should consider the introduction of a suicide pill for patients who are healthy, but simply tired of life.